The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Covering Prefixes Outbound Route Filter for BGP-4' (draft-ietf-bess-orf-covering-prefixes-06.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the BGP Enabled Services Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alia Atlas and Adrian Farrel. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bess-orf-covering-prefixes/ Technical Summary A BGP speaker can send Outbound Route Filters (ORF) to a peer. The peer uses ORFs to filter routing updates that it sends to the BGP speaker. Using ORF, a BGP speaker can realize a "route pull" paradigm, in which the BGP speaker, on demand, pulls certain routes from the peer. This document defines a new Outbound Route Filter (ORF) type, called the "Covering Prefixes ORF (CP-ORF)". CP-ORF is applicable in Virtual Hub-and-Spoke VPNs. It also is applicable in BGP/MPLS Ethernet VPN (EVPN) networks. Working Group Summary There has been no controversy relating to the technical aspect of this Document. A late IPR disclosure was made against this document (see question 8). The WG did not oppose to the progress of the document. Document Quality The WG Chairs are aware of one implementation plan of the technologies described in this document. It should be noted that the contexts (Virtual Hub-and-Spoke VPNs and EVPNs) in which this Document applies are fairly recent thus explaining that implementations are not yet available Personnel Martin Vigoureux is the Document Shepherd Adrian Farrel is the responsible AD
